Rebecca Rayford on Atomic Spin

Development Practices

Pair Programming With AI Agents – How to Keep Learning While You Ship

AI agents make everyone’s code look the same. Pair programming keeps the judgment behind it growing. Here’s how to pair with an agent.

AI for Developers

The insight isn't just about adding AI analysis to your tooling. It's about deliberating on what problem you're asking it to solve.

Development Practices

Dealing with single commits? Get comfortable with a handful of Git commands: git commit, git rebase, and git reset --soft.

Development Practices

On a recent software development project, it seemed straightforward at first. But, I quickly realized syncing data is deceptively tricky.

Development

Let's look at error handling and how to share form state across nested components without prop drilling using FormProvider and useFormContext.

React / Redux

React Hook Form is a library that smoothly handles forms in React. Let's look at examples of how to use React Hook Form with Zod validation.

Project & Team Management

On my last project, the tech lead introduced the concept of feature captains. I found this practice to be highly valuable.

React / Redux

Angular vs. React? Here are some helpful tips to learn React when you’ve primarily been working with Angular.

I'll explore how coupling database design with design principles can result in databases with high performance.

Growing as Makers

Let's talk about what developers can learn from the design team while expanding their consulting skills, too.

Using DateTime.Now() in your business logic can cause issues when it's time for writing tests. Here's my approach for fixing this.

Extracurricular Activities

Find out why you should be contributing to open-source projects and the importance of community and collaboration, even if you’re new.